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Contents can be produced by the user base as their cars drive along existing streets and municating via the inter, yielding a free and uptodate map. Physical Storage Format The Physical Storage Format (PSF) initiative is an industry grouping of car manufacturers, navigation system suppliers and map data suppliers whose objective is the standardization of the data format used in car navigation systems, as well as allow a map update capability. Standardization would improve interoperability, specifically by allowing the same navigation maps to be used in navigation systems from 19 manufacturers. Companies involved include BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler,Renault, ADIT, Aisin AW, Alpine Electronics, Navigon, Bosch, DENSO, Mitsubishi, Harman Becker, Panasonic, PTV, Continental AG, Clarion, Navteq, Tele Atlas and Zenrin. Media The road database may be stored in solid state readonly memory (ROM), optical media (CD or DVD), solid state flash memory, magic media (hard disk), or a bination. A mon scheme is to have a base map permanently stored in ROM that can be augmented with detailed information for a region the user is interested in. A ROM is always programmed at the factory。s concessions in their own account of the Electro Gyrocator project that Etak actually trumped Honda39。 Honda39。s own historical timeline,[3] the pany claims to have codeveloped an analog automotive navigation product called the Electro Gyrocator, working with Honda. This engineering effort was abandoned in 1985. Although there are reports of the Electro Gyrocator being offered as a dealer option on the Honda Accord in 1981, it39。s systems, which accessed digital map i